For the first time since the launch of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) feasibility study, the FCC physics community gathered online from 7 to 11 February to reflect the status and…
We are delighted to welcome 11 new PhD students to the Cockcroft Institute. Our new cohort joined us last autumn, and they have all been very busy settling into their…
A significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous…
The 31st Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC) is coming to Liverpool this summer. The conference, hosted jointly by UKRI-STFC, the John Adams Institute and the Cockcroft Institute, will take place at…
The magazine Optics & Photonics News has published a report article about laser wakefield acceleration in its latest issue. The article features prominently the EuPRAXIA project as one of the…
Two Cockcroft Institute experts have published an article in the February issue of CERN Courier on the use of linacs to level up the access to radiotherapy in low income…
CI partner University of Liverpool has become the first UK university to join the AEgIS antimatter experiment at CERN. The AEgIS experiment (Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) aims to measure the gravitational fall…
It is with great sadness that I have to report the passing of my colleague and friend, Dr Ralph B Fiorito. Ralph was an internationally recognized expert in beam diagnostics…
CI member Professor Susan Smith, ASTeC Director Emeritus and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool, has been recognised by The Queen in her New Year honours list for her…